The town of Abbeville, positioned near the mouth of the Somme River between Boulogne and Paris, was a major British headquarters and supply hub during the First World War.

At various stages of the war, it was also the location of three separate British hospitals which received and treated wounded soldiers.

In the later stages of the German occupation, facilities were built nearby for storage of components for V-1 flying bombs.

Deceased British soldiers of the First World War account for 737 of the interments but Australians, South Africans, Canadians, Indians and a New Zealander who died in the period 1914 to 1916 are buried in the cemetery.

[2] A notable interment is Leonard James Keyworth, a corporal in the London Regiment who died of wounds at Abbeville on 10 October 1915.